A popular project among new students is designing personalized key tags with their names. After creating and printing their designs, they proudly take them home to show their friends and family. This hands-on approach not only sparks creativity but also helps foster a deeper understanding of design principles and 3D printing technology. Through these efforts, the STEM program … [Read more...] about STEM: Students co-creating with 3D
Striving for Full-Potential: Building Confidence Through Sport
A Challenge:Girls face significant challenges in relation to access to sports rooted in social norms of fears that sports grounds are not safe for girls. This greatly impacts the self-confidence of girls. One of Thamarai's first projects in Annai nagar was to create an enabling environment for sports so that parents would be at ease and that girls could play easily. We also … [Read more...] about Striving for Full-Potential: Building Confidence Through Sport
Young adults aspiring to learn more
English Class by Dhinesh:In every English class, l am always learning new words, phrases, and learning how to use them in speech and writing. I watch English documentaries and read books to expose myself to the language. I am trying to improve my English day by day. Learning a new language is always difficult for everyone so it was the same for me. At first I couldn’t speak a … [Read more...] about Young adults aspiring to learn more
Sustainable Development Goals by Abirami
Ongoing support for growth and agency building is a key component of Thamarai’s work. We renew ourselves annually by attending Radical Transformational Leadership programs. Some of our team members are currently training to be practitioner coaches with Dr. Monica Sharma, the program creator. We want to bring this valuable work to the local communities in which we work. Abirami … [Read more...] about Sustainable Development Goals by Abirami
One year in Thamarai by Viviana Tsotsos
Now this beautiful year in which I had the opportunity to be in India, in Auroville and a part of Thamarai, is almost over. I came last August with 9 other people from Germany to volunteer in different Auroville units. We are here with a German youth exchange program, “weltwaerts”, that gets supported by the German government and is completely uncommercial. Through this, I … [Read more...] about One year in Thamarai by Viviana Tsotsos